The good terrorists are the guys who bomb and kill Indians. The bad terrorists are the ones who attack Pakistani interests, whether in Afghanistan or Pakistan. In other words, you blow up the Taj Mahal Hotel, you are a good guy. You blow up the Marriott in Islamabad, you are a bad guy.

No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long since been supplanted by others more colourful and less printable, and because our capacity for surprise has long since been dulled by a surfeit of sources.

Im not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.

India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But even thinking about India makes clear the immensity of the nation-building challenge.

In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.